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Spectrum Development IDEI am currently writing an IDE that works with the "z80/.sna Assembler" found in the cross-development download section. The appearance is similar to …
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More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
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Sinclair Computers never marketed?What machines did Sinclair Research design but not put into production? I have previously thought that some work had been done on a Super-Spectrum,…
... more about the cheap 16k Colour Computer. Also in the book ... .htm[/url]) calls this 16k colour machine LC3 previously I have ... over time? If the 16k colour computer wasn?t the Super ... -
New Spectrum, new Spectrum... what about the old one?Suppose Amstrad were to release not a new spectrum but the old one, plain and simple. Well, "rapackaged", say the 128k with a proper keyboard, or wha…
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Home Action Replay Page - SpectrumHi everyone. I want to invite you all to join us at the Home Action Replay Page (HARP), which is a site like MARP for consoles and home computers in…
Home Action Replay Page - SpectrumHi everyone. I want to invite you all to join us at the Home Action Replay Page (HARP), which is a site like MARP for consoles and home computers in…
Arcanoid updatedA relatively small but overdue update. A couple of Spectrum games reviewed and a new 256 colour game - Gun Runner - added. I guess I'll just have to…
A relatively small but overdue update.
A couple of Spectrum games reviewed and a new 256 colour game - Gun Runner - added. I guess I'll just have to eat my words that 256 colour games are dead. :)Favourite thing about the SpectrumWhat was/ or is your favourite thing/s about the Spectrum? Is it the soundchip of your favoured/owned machine, be it 48K beeper, or 128 AY the shee…
... that WERE achievable with full colour, even though within months we ... there is plenty and enough colour for us speccy users, yet ... , your usually on a 2 colour part of the screen... I ...Arcanoid update - yet again!Erm.. six new 256 colour games added to the site! Probably the biggest 256 colour games update ever.
Erm.. six new 256 colour games added to the site! Probably the biggest 256 colour games update ever.What Spectrum-related name would you give a band?As a purely hypothetical question, if you were in a music group or recording as a soloist, and wanted to give them a Spectrum-related name, what woud…
... (as Crash! used to call colour clash)
- The Utarg of ...Speccy colours got me confuddled.Ok ... I have zx32 v1.03.97.1213 and ZXSpin v.041 Love them both dearly. Zx32 is handy for mapmaking because it gets rid of the border. Spin c…
ANNOUNCE: Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana TrumanHappy 26th birthday Allana! Today I release my new game, [I]Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman[/I] (MM:N-AT), a tribute to my favourite charact…
... in colouring vertical guardians (their colour-attributes are no longer ORed ... with the background colour-attribute).
7. I ...More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.Target Renegade Remake DemoHi, I'm in the progress of making a remake of Target Renegade, I am working with Dean Swain (from the Target Renegade:Remix project) to recreate the …
There's a bug in my Speccy, Dear Liza, Dear Liza...Hi guys, Just me being annoying again - Can anyone out there in 'Internetland' help me with ideas about what could be causing a bug in my Speccy em…
... tarted up - get rid of colour clash, make sprites 256 colours ... old speccy games in full colour (48K ones only that is ...Chuckie Egg EditorI suppose you could say this was MIA, in as much as nobody knew it existed. In 1985 I wrote a Chuckie Egg Editor, and apart from copying it for a fe…
... 't hard to make a false header to stop the prog ...A bit late, but 10 years of PlayStaion! My thoughts.I think the acual Aniversary of the Playstion release was a couple of weeks ago, but I picked up GamesTM today and it has a big feature about it (bes…
... 8 to 32 bit, from colour clash and cassete loading to ... true colour and cds. We saw so ...SmartiesIs the flavouring in orange smarties in the shell or the chocolate? Or is it psychological because of the colour, and isn't actually flavoured at al…
Is the flavouring in orange smarties in the shell or the chocolate?
Or is it psychological because of the colour, and isn't actually flavoured at all but you think it is?R-Type RZXThis has just been submitted to the [url="http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk"]RZX Archive[/url] R-Type is an excellent arcade conversion, great use of colo…
... arcade conversion, great use of colour and sound (even for 48k ...Just Put 1500+ Tapes on Ebay for Grabs, alsoa few game and watches if anybody is interested, thanks for reading.. [url="http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZcornishdaveyQQsorecordspe…
Screen AttributesNot sure if this is a devolopment question but here goes... In my limited understanding, the 'attribute file' of a speccy is 5800h to 5AFFh and each…
... to 2 dealing with foreground colour, 3 to 5 delaing with ... background colour and 6 and 7 ldoing ... that the humble spectrums 2 colour characters are a limitation of ...Them! (project future modelled game) hello! i was hoping someone could answer a problem i am having completing this game.i have recorded the game for RZX viewing yet,i cannot complete i…
... i have 2 of every colour apart from yellow except upon ...An Unusual Name the Game RequestThis is going to sound a bit strange, but can anyone name the game... When the loading screen had almost finished drawing, the tape sounded just lik…
Head Over Heels - 256 ColoursAfter two weeks of painstaking work I've finally completed my 256 Colour version of the classic Head Over Heels, for use in Vladimir Khladov's excell…
... 've finally completed my 256 Colour version of the classic Head ... this one to the 256 colour games on your site!)Arcanoid - new updateAnther update of Arcanoid (my site if you didn't know). Added Anthony's excellent new 256 colour version of Head over Heels. Plus 2 new articles. I…
... Anthony's excellent new 256 colour version of Head over Heels ... copy of Bruc Lee 256 colour, could they please forward it ...Help needed to speed up functionCan anyone help me to re-factor this code snippet. The "MAP" section holds information about which tiles go where on the screen (handled by another f…
... to work out what colour each tile should be based ... Each tile needs a 2x2 colour block. The following code does ... IX+0)
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COLOUR DEFB 20,30,40,50 ...Anyone help re-factoring a tile functionI had some excellent feedback for re-factoring my function that displays the colour for my screen tiles. Can anyone offer some help to improve the fu…
... my function that displays the colour for my screen tiles. Can ...ADCI'm a little confused about how the Z80 manages the ADC instruction. I'm assuming two ADD instructions are performed (am I wrong?!) I can think of 3 …
... but each example it is false.
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Flag.C:=(DestinationByte+V ...Setting the borderCan someone tell me best way to set the border to a given colour using machine code. Its there an operating system call or can I load up a memory loc…
Can someone tell me best way to set the border to a given colour using machine code. Its there an operating system call or can I load up a memory location. Thanks.